Decorated Musicians
Opera director John Copley, pianist Stephen Hough and conductor Sir Simon Rattle are amongst the musicians to be recognised in the Queen’s 2014 New Year Honours List.
Read more from BBC Music Magazine.
Opera director John Copley, pianist Stephen Hough and conductor Sir Simon Rattle are amongst the musicians to be recognised in the Queen’s 2014 New Year Honours List.
Read more from BBC Music Magazine.
This compelling 2 hour documentary is available on SBS at the link below until 3.15 pm on November 30th, 2013. Centred around the creation of Britten’s last opera Death in Venice, it contains footage of Britten, his colleagues and carers at work and being interviewed, as well as the health issues that led to his death in…
The Financial Review has published a collection of images of what the Sydney Opera House might have looked like. These are some of the entries that were displayed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in January 1957. The Sydney landscape could have looked so different! Click here.
Composer Paul Stanhope made his mark on the 2011 APRA Art Music Awards announced last night. His compositions won Work of the Year in both Instrumental (String Quartet No 2) and Vocal/Choral categories. (Deserts of Exile). Sydney audiences were mesmerised by “Deserts of Exile” when the Sydney Chamber Choir performed it in their “Lamentations” programme a few…
Seven of Britain’s opera houses including the Royal Opera House, the Welsh National Opera and the English National Opera, get together for a behind the scenes look at opera this Saturday May 10th. The four-hour event Inside Opera will be live streamed on YouTube. Read more. Inside Opera: Live will be livestreamed at theguardian.com/classical and…
This is a perceptive and compelling article on the impact of internet streaming services on creativity and the livelihood of artists. The writer, David Byrne is a founding member and principal songwriter of Talking Heads. Born in Scotland he lives in the US and warns that disseminating art via the internet – be it literature, music or…
The Musician Project Conductor Max McBride Schubert Incidental Music to Rosamunde D 997 and Brahms’ Symphony No 1 in C minor, Opus 68 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, November 15, 2015 There was an abundance of talent on display when a selection of students from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music joined by more experienced…